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supplanting

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of Supplant

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better. Thomas Jefferson

The tendency of women to push aside man, supplanting the old spirit of cooperation with him in all the affairs of life, is very disappointing to me. Nikola Tesla

When the Lord's Prayer is prayed with insight it becomes a petition for the abolition of capitalism and the supplanting of the existing economic order with a society which is consistent with the religion of Jesus. Kirby Page

A year later, after American and British troops had removed the Taliban and installed the interim government, the land under cultivation leapt back to convert, with Afghanistan supplanting Burma to become the world's largest opium producer once more. Source: Internet

Christianisation went slowly in Asturias without supplanting the ancient pagan divinities. Source: Internet

He came over the top of Waisake Naholo last year because of that," he added in reference to Reece supplanting Naholo in the All Blacks. Source: Internet

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